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...result was a standoff. Rejecting the opposition's call for a boycott, almost 53% of the country's 35 million eligible voters went to the polls, compared with 59% in 1970 and about 57% in 1977. But in selecting the 209 members of the new National Assembly, the voters dealt a rebuff to Zia by defeating six members of his Cabinet, including Defense Minister Ali Ahmad Talpur...
...this in an open letter to The Crimson because we fell that, even if The Salient did print it, it would reach only a very limited number of people and we feel that the issues raised by The Salient's insensitive statement are very important and need to be dealt with by the entire Harvard community...
...attracting more interest: 1984's Washington Federals are 1985's Orlando Renegades, while the New Orleans Breakers, who had just finished moving down from Boston, packed up again and are now playing in Portland, Ore. The Chicago Blitz is a paper franchise, having suspended play for this season and dealt out its squad like so many cards to other U.S.F.L. teams. While a few U.S.F.L. franchises are catching on, none of them are breaking even. Indeed, the L.A. Express played its opener last Sunday on welfare, so deep in the red that it is currently being supported by the other...
Last year the 41 proposals we dealt with covered a wide range of corporate activity, from a call on Emerson Electric to adopt ethical criteria for accepting military contracts: to a demand that Merck & Co. cease making contributrions to charitable organizations and non-profit institutions: to an appeal to Standard Oil of California. Baxter Travenol, Texaco, and Xerox to abide by minimal standard of ethical conduct in their South African operations or withdraw from that country...
...events and real people, but often include invented dialogue, characters and even entire scenes. Dozens of docudramas have been made, on subjects ranging from the history of American slavery, in Roots, to the perjury trial of Alger Hiss in last year's Emmy Award-winner Concealed Enemies. Many have dealt with personalities, living or dead, who still figure in national political debate...